Lesson # 1: Don't keep your old heater around...

[JDH]

I un-plugged my heater cause I was doing some work in my tank, I finished everything up and plugged the heater back in. I'm sitting by the tank looking at what I did, and I noticed that my heater's pilot light wasn't on. So I un-plugged it again and plugged it back in. Then I started to smell a burning smell. I thought maybe that I split some water somewhere or something like that, so I checked the plug again. *The burning smell is getting stronger at this point* Then I looked down on the floor and noticed that there was another plug sitting there, that wasn't plugged in. So I followed the cord and it was attached to my heater that was sitting in the tank. Hmmm... If my heater wasn't plugged in, then what the hell did I plug in!?!?! Oh ####... it was my old heater that I plugged in, which was sitting with some other fish stuff in my fish shelf! And that's where the burning smell was coming from.

Here are some pictures of my stupidity.

The old heater, the melted plastic smelled nice and is that a crack in it!?!?!

That's my siphoning hose that has a nice hole in it. Thankfully i bought a new one a few weeks ago.

Moral of the story: Do not keep your old heater anywhere near your plug bar.

 

[Sorrell]

Eeek! Good thing you were around to investigate, that could've been so much worse

 

[Zenn]

This story only came a little late for me, this was when i was setting up two tanks together, i had put one heater in one tank that was ready and i plugged it in, and i heard was hissing, i followed it to find that there was a burning smell from my computer chair, i picked up my heater and went to wipe the dust off of it, oh sh!t what a stupid thing to do... Ouch, ouch, OUCH, the heater was on and it had cracked and it had burnt a hole in my chair and burnt my blady stupid hand...

*Put hand up*

I will never do that again, and plug in the wrong blady heater!

 

[canarsie11]

A lesson learned, good thing you did not just shoot out the door afterwards.

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